The copy was a bit beat up but still an awesome book.
For both a wonderful cutting sense of political humour and cynicism coupled with a strong drawing technique Ron Cobb was an early influence on a lot of my concept art. The book, myself and my brother inherited from our dad was a little bit worn but still readable. It contained a lot of the political cartoons (which were produced mostly during the 1970's) were somewhat dated, many, viewer discretion would be advised; we'd never seen such amazingly detailed cartoon work as kids.
Caricature of late entertainer Tiny Tim.
When I discovered this guy not only worked on the original Star Wars as a concept artist but came up the look for the Ithorian. He was also honoured by having one named after him.
I saw the movie Hotel Transylvania a few weeks back, probably my favourite Halloween theme inspired animated movie since Nightmare Before Christmas and my favourite Adam Sandler movie since Happy Gilmore. This little character just kind of popped into my head as this refreshing blast of traditional vampire aesthetic came through like an uninterrupted parade of awesomeness via my TV.
One of my earliest inspirations to get into caricaturing, I was always fascinated by the opening credits of this show despite being way too young to realise it was a highly refined sitcom about British politicians. It originally aired before I was born and finished its run by the time I was a year old, so I was watching re runs and all I knew at the time was most of the children's television was over by the time this came on the confusing part was like many sitcoms it featured an animated cartoon intro, which I began trying my hand at the style, results varied.
